Cody
Williams
My Views
Hated Homosexuals
It
appears today that homosexuals are the most despised group of people in
America, if not the world. And, unlike the hating of any other group or
minority, this scorn, a lot of folks believe, is sanctioned by God
Almighty. The common argument goes, “I’m against it, because God is
against it."
Wow! Who can stand up against God? Who really wants to piss off the creator of the universe? Surely not the 19 men who flew commercial jetliners into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Theirs too were actions taken to please, well, God.
To ‘come out’ of the closet and be totally comfortable with being ‘gay’ takes an extreme amount of courage and self-assuredness. Coming out, while it is an act of defiance, opens an individual up to ridicule, to be ostracized from family and acquaintances and at the least, talked about, belittled, patronized, mocked and condemned. Coming out of the closet exposes an individual to a higher threat of being physically abused, harassed or harm. Because of this, today coming out is a statement no less as defiant and courageous as it was for SNIC (the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) during the height of the Civil Rights struggle to sit down and request a cup of coffee at a department store lunch counter in America’s Jim Crow South; or, for the children of Soweto, living under the brutal oppression of Apartheid in South Africa to demand not to be taught an inferior education in the language of their oppressors; or, for a disenfranchised Palestinian to hurl ancient street stones at armored Israeli tanks; or, for a Chinese human rights advocate to stand toe-to-tire tread, looking down the barrel of a communist party gun turret. Each, in their bravery stood, or stands, against man’s ignorance, man’s tendency to fear and hate those least like his self, the person perceived weaker, different.
Last week I heard on national radio a syndicated sports announcer rail out vehemently against the possibility of his having a homosexual child. He used words as much pejoratives as any derogatory insults anybody can direct at any single group of people. Had these insults been directed at any other group of people the announcer, the show’s host and its producers would have lost their jobs. Yet, because these insults were aimed at gays there was absolutely no public protest, outcry or denunciation. The public, it seems, have come to accept the attacks on homosexuals and, frighteningly, much the way the German populace became reticent to the Third Reich’s assault on Europe’s Jews during the middle of last century. Why wouldn’t they, God, so they thought then too, was on the side of those who perpetrated the Jewish Holocaust. God, after all, sanctioned the murder of 6 million innocents. Right?
Need we wait for a homosexual “Cristal Night?” A night when a crowd, in a frenzy of hatred and backlash commit an as of yet unspeakable brutality, spurred on by a messenger of God against at group of people who are no more responsible for who and what they are than the left handed young female star gazer burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Hunts. Have we really evolved socially from the same people who once stoned lepers in a public square for simply being sick? Listening to WFAN’s Sid Rosenberg on the Imus in the Morning Show, I wouldn’t bet on it.
It’s time to stop the hypocrisy. A true and close examination of the Holy Scriptures shows anyone willing to see it that God does not condemn men or women who see themselves as homosexual. My bible tells me that God loves them just as He loves all of His creation. And, that we should too. True, the scriptures does teach us that God hates sexual immorality. But how can a society that rushes home from church every Sunday night to see the latest episode of Sex in the City on HBO and sells Wet and Wild latex condoms next to Snicker Bars and chewing gum at the corner convenience store single out any one group as having cornered the market on sexual indiscretions? Surely God would hate us all. But, again, isn’t that what those who blasted fiery holes in our national security with four plane loads of jet fuel went down screaming: “Death to the infidels; Death to Americans, the enemies of God.”
It’s time to stop the constant mistreatment of homosexuals. It’s time for all of us to follow John F. Kennedy’s example when he declared himself too, a Berliner. It’s time each of us to stand defiant, hand in hand and say I too am gay and I am straight and I am human. Stand bravely like Martin Luther King and say, “we want all of our rights, we want them here and we want them now.” Stand like our Lord, Christ Jesus and say, “what you do the least of them, you do to me.”
(c) copyright 2003 Cody Williams
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